The Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms is a UK government post usually held by the Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords. Prior to 17 March 1834, the Gentlemen-at-Arms were known as the Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners.

List of Captains of the Gentlemen-at-Arms

• 1509: Henry Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Essex
• 1539: Sir Anthony Browne
• 1549: John Braye, 2nd Baron Braye
• 1550: William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton
• 1553: Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex
• 1558: Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon
• 1596: George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon
• May 1603: Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland
• 1615: Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk
• 1616: Theophilus Howard, Lord Howard de Walden; succeeded as 2nd Earl of Suffolk 28 May 1626
• May 1635: William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury
• 1643: Francis Leigh, 1st Baron Dunsmore , created Earl of Chichester 3 June 1644
• temp. Charles II: William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury
• 1660: Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland
• 1661: George Goring, 1st Earl of Norwich
• 1662: Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland
• 1667: John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse
• 1672: Thomas Belasyse, 2nd Viscount Fauconberg
• 1674: Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
• 1684: Robert Leke, 3rd Earl of Scarsdale
• 1687: Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon
• temp. William III: John Lovelace, 3rd Baron Lovelace
• 1693: Ralph Montagu, 1st Earl of Montagu
• 1695: Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans
• 13 January 1712: Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort
• 1714: Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans
• 1726: William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, succeeded as 3rd Duke of Devonshire 4 June 1729
• 1731: Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, 4th Earl of Cork
• 1734: John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu
• 1740: Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton
• 1742: Allen Bathurst, 1st Baron Bathurst
• 1745: John Hobart, 1st Baron Hobart , created Earl of Buckinghamshire 5 September 1746
• 1756: John Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley of Stratton
• 17 July 1762: George Henry Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield
• 31 December 1772: George Edgcumbe, 3rd Baron Edgcumbe , created Viscount Mount Edgcumbe and Valletort 5 March 1781
• 29 March 1782: George Townshend, 16th Baron Ferrers of Chartley
• 14 May 1783: George Bussy Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey
• 31 December 1783: George Townshend, 16th Baron Ferrers of Chartley , created Earl of Leicester 18 May 1784
• 1797: George Evelyn Boscawen, 3rd Viscount Falmouth
• 1799: Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford
• 1804: George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield
• 19 February 1806: George Richard St John, 3rd Viscount Bolingbroke, 4th Viscount St John
• 19 March 1808: Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
• 11 April 1812: James George Stopford, 3rd Earl of Courtown
• 1827: Henry Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford
• 8 December 1830: Thomas Foley, 3rd Baron Foley
• 1 May 1833: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley
• 29 December 1834: Henry Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford
• 6 May 1835: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley
• 8 September 1841: John George Weld Weld-Forester, 2nd Baron Forester
• 24 July 1846: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley
• 27 February 1852: John William Montagu, 7th Earl of Sandwich
• 30 December 1852: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley
• 26 February 1858: Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot, 3rd Earl Talbot
• 28 June 1859: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley
• 10 July 1866: Charles Augustus Bennet, 6th Earl of Tankerville
• 20 March 1867: William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter
• 12 December 1868: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley
• 27 December 1869: George Augustus Constantine Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby
• 20 April 1871: Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper
• 1 January 1874: William Thomas Horner Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester
• 2 March 1874: William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter
• 4 February 1875: Charles John Chetwynd-Talbot, 19th Earl of Shrewsbury
• 28 May 1877: George William Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry
• 3 May 1880: Alexander William George Duff, 6th Earl Fife
• 21 January 1881: CHarles Gordon, 11th Marquess of Huntly
• 27 June 1881: Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington, 3rd Baron Carrington
• 6 July 1885: George William Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry
• 10 February 1886: Charles Douglas Richard Hanbury-Tracy, 4th Baron Sudeley
• 5 August 1886: George William Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington
• 24 November 1886: Robert St Clair-Erskine, 4th Earl of Rosslyn
• 11 August 1890: Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson-Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough
• 25 August 1892: George William Henry Venables-Vernon, 7th Baron Vernon
• 13 March 1894: Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield
• 16 July 1895: Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron Belper
• 18 December 1905: William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp
• 31 July 1907: Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman
• 26 July 1908: Edward Arthur Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke
• 20 November 1922: George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon
• 22 January 1924: Labour government - post vacant?
• 1 December 1924: George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon
• 26 June 1925: Ivor Miles Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth
• 1 January 1929: George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan
• 5 June 1929: Labour government - post vacant?
• 12 November 1931: George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan
• 31 May 1940: Henry Snell, 1st Baron Snell
• 21 April 1944: vacant.
• 22 March 1945: Hugh William Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue
• 4 August 1945: Charles George Ammon, 1st Baron Ammon
• 18 October 1949: George Robert Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd
• 5 November 1951: Hugh William Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue
• 27 June 1957: Michael John Hicks-Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn
• 21 October 1964: Malcolm Newton Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd
• 29 July 1967: Frank Beswick, Baron Beswick
• 24 June 1970: Michael John Hicks-Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn
• 11 March 1974: Annie Patricia Llewelyn-Davies, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies
• 6 May 1979: Bertram Stanley Mitford Bowyer, 2nd Baron Denham
• 22 May 1991: Thomas Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh
• 16 September 1993: Nicholas James Christopher Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater
• 20 July 1994: Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde
• 6 May 1997: Denis Victor Carter, Baron Carter
• May 2002: Bruce Joseph Grocott, Baron Grocott